Cheap Eats
This was supposed to be the year the Portland food cart broke down.
Last spring, our cart pods looked like
they would all be tilled under by developers, from Hawthorne’s Cartopia
to Bel
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Featured Stories
People have been bitching about the price of movies since
the days of penny matinees, but with multiplex prices hitting an
all-time high—most major-chain matinees start at $8.50, and that’s
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Featured Stories
$3.99 breakfast special at the Mock Crest Tavern
“Give me a fucking screwdriver!” booms a convivial man in a
Hawaiian shirt. It’s 9:30 a.m. on a weekday and the elderly,
housecoat-and-sli
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Featured Stories
Beer, dice and pizza at Guardian Games
345 SE Taylor St., 238-4000, ggportland.com.
The concept of #value is a mantra of sorts for local Magic: The Gathering
players, but the appreciation
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Newly available data on Airbnb shows the company’s impact on Portland.

News Stories
Airbnb is all for sharing—except, of course, when it comes to its own data.
The vacation-rental
site has been under scrutiny in Portland and other U.S. cities for its
effect on neighborhoods
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POWgirls offers girls a seat in the director’s chair.

Movie Reviews & Stories
The statistics for women filmmakers are
dismal: In 2013, only 6 percent of the 250 top-grossing domestic films
had female directors. Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival took aim at
that di
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A survey of meatless, bowl-based meals.

Food Reviews & Stories
The vegan bowl is a Portland staple.
Is that because of vegans? I don’t think so. Actually, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a known vegan eating a vegan bowl.
Vegan bowls are for
the rest of
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Portland's hidden streetcar lines are resurfacing.

Features
Ever drive past a set of rusty old train tracks on a Portland street where no trains go?Portland once had a vast inner-city trolley system similar to San Francisco's that went all the way up to St. Johns and Vancouver and as as far south as Oregon City. Each line was run by different private companies so many tracks ran parallel and were eventually abandoned. As cars became more and more prominent, ...
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Why local artisan cidermakers are at the core of a national boom.

Cover Story
The tree wasn’t all that special. It was just too damn big.
Back in 2004, Nat
West’s friend and neighbor in North Portland, Norris Thomlinson, had a
large and craggy tree in his backyard t
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